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...year sunspot cycle was ushered in last autumn when Mount Wilson observers spotted two faint spots too far from the solar equator to be survivors of the old cycle, too small to have any effect on earth. Last week near the sun's eastern edge erupted a whirling blot 16,000 miles across. Astronomers predicted magnetic storms and poor radio reception during the twelve days before the sun's rotation wheeled it out of sight, thought it might grow big enough to be seen with the unaided eye through smoked glass...
...Rockefeller's experience with Art in the big world was less fortunate. Although he is a trustee of Manhattan's Metropolitan and Modern Art museums, one of his first family duties was to blot off the walls of Rockefeller Center the Communistic murals of Artist Diego Rivera. He doled out prizes to Rockefeller Center workmen. He was tutored in showmanship by Samuel ("Roxy") Rothafel. He grappled the problem of populating his father's vast acres of office space with rent-paying tenants. And as an unofficial renting agent, he seemed to be an indisputable success...
...Mayor Harry B. Hickey of Fredonia, N. Y. protested to the Marxes: "The name of Fredonia has been without a blot since 1817. I feel it is my duty as Mayor to question your intentions in using the name of our city in your picture." Back cracked the Marxes: "Your excellency: Our advice is that you change the name of your town. It is hurting our picture. Anyhow, what makes you think you are Mayor of Fredonia? Do you wear a black moustache, play the harp, speak with an Italian accent or chase girls like Harpo? We are certain...
Some 8,000 racegoers turned out at the Long Island estate of the late Hugh A. Murray one day last week for the autumn meet of the United Hunts Racing Association. They saw Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney's chestnut gelding Blot win the main event, the Manhasset Steeplechase, by a half-length. They saw Winston Guest astride Lady Newberry win a thunderous race for polo ponies after his cousin Mike Phipps fell from a slipping saddle in the stretch. But what they enjoyed most, and what many of them had come specially to see, was the four-furlong...
Whatever may be said for the justice of the treatment of individual cased, the whole situation is a blot and nothing more. It is incredible that any administration should be unable to modulate the expression of student opinion without resort to spectacular punitive tactics. Part of the difficulty no doubt lies in the fact that outside influences force this particular college to restrict free speech more than is just. The rest of the fault is in the apparent inability of the college officials to develop a relation of trust and cooperation with its students, and is inexcusable...